Photo: Aiden Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0Ballinderreen sits above 99% of Irish towns for households of parents with children (65%)
Households without a car or van: 4.7%, below 97% of Irish towns. Few places have as many residents who describe themselves as White Irish: 89% here, more than in 96% of Irish towns. At the 2022 Census Ballinderreen was home to 383 people in 113 households. For Ballinderreen, the census puts shared households of unrelated adults at 1.8%.
Faster growth than 80% of Irish towns: Ballinderreen changed by +14% since 2016
Residents at the 2016 and 2022 censuses, on 2022 boundaries, and the change beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Change, 2016 to 2022
CSO publishes yearly population estimates for counties and regions, not towns, so the trend is two censuses rather than a line; 2016 ages aren’t on 2022 boundaries, so there is no change by age.
The median change is +8% across Ireland’s towns and +7% across Co. Galway’s towns.
7.8% of residents are 65 or over, fewer than in 88% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The biggest five-year age group is 45–49, with just over one in ten residents, 1.6 times the share across Ireland’s towns. On residents aged 15 to 24, Ballinderreen sits higher than 56% of Irish towns: 12%. The usual figure: 14% of residents are 65 or over across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Galway 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%.
Ballinderreen ranks above 95% of Irish towns on students among residents 15 and over: 17%
CSO’s social classes (everyone, by their own or their family’s occupation), the occupations of those at work, and where residents lived a year before the Census.
Residents by social class · all residents
Where residents lived a year earlier
Residents who lived somewhere else a year earlier. The bar runs to 25%.
Workers by occupation · residents at work
Across Ireland’s towns, just over a third of residents are in the professional, managerial and technical classes and 15% in the semi-skilled and unskilled classes; in Ballinderreen, 66% and 7.9%. Here, 4.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
One-person households make up 14% in Ballinderreen, less than in 95% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Galway’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Households in Ballinderreen hold 3.4 people on average (Ireland’s towns: 2.7). Measured more widely, 24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
Only 3.5% of households live in a flat or apartment in Ballinderreen
Home types, cars and the internet, by household. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Cars or vans · share of households
Internet at home · share of households
Home broadband covers 88% of households, while 8.3% go without the internet (typical: 7.6%). Across Ireland’s towns, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment. Holiday homes account for 2.4%.
Before tax, the median household income is €73,060 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Ballinderreen’s households have a gross income above €73,060 a year, 22% above the median for Ireland (€60,120). Countywide, Co. Galway has a median of €59,640.
A lower share of residents with another country’s citizenship than 91% of Irish towns, at 7.4%
Place of birth and citizenship as CSO asks them: born abroad includes Irish citizens born abroad.
Born abroad, by birthplace · share of all residents; the bar runs to 35%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 35%
Citizens of another country, by citizenship; CSO counts dual Irish citizens as Irish.
Other languages · share of all residents
CSO’s small-area tables don’t give the year people arrived.
Another language is spoken at home by 11%, most often Polish (1.6%); 2.4% speak English not well or not at all. At 16%, the share of residents born outside Ireland is lower than in just over four fifths of Irish towns. Measured more widely, 15% of residents are citizens of another country across Ireland’s towns.
Ballinderreen ranks above 91% of Irish towns on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 2%
Residents aged 3 and over who can speak Irish, and how often they speak it outside education (CSO).
Irish speakers · residents aged 3 and over
Top of Co. Galway: Knocknacarra, at 4.5%. As a yardstick, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
A larger share of residents who said they are Catholic than 95% of Irish towns: 83%
Ethnic or cultural background and religion, in CSO’s categories, as people described themselves.
Ethnic groups other than White Irish · all residents
White Irish, not charted: 89% of Ballinderreen · Co. Galway’s towns 72% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Across Ireland’s towns, 17% of residents said they have no religion; in Ballinderreen, 14%. The wider picture: 71% of residents said they are Catholic across Ireland’s towns. Next after White Irish come Other White (3.8%), Asian or Asian Irish (3.2%) and Black or Black Irish (2.4%).
Above 99% of Irish towns: 46% of residents 15 and over are married
Marital status of residents 15 and over, and unpaid carers.
Partnership status · residents 15 and over
The small-area tables count carers, not their hours of care.
Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 6.3%, from the figure across Ireland’s towns. As a reference point, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
Ballinderreen sits above 94% of Irish towns for adults with a degree or higher (62%)
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Among residents 15 and over, 21% are still studying. As a reference point, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. A postgraduate qualification is the highest level for just over a third of adults; primary level or less for 7.4% (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%).
No nearby town is as old as Ballinderreen
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballinderreen | 383 | — | 37.7 | 7.8% | 65% |
| Oranmore | 5,819 | 8.8 km | 36.6 | 9.3% | 45% |
| Murrough | 2,909 | 11.5 km | 32.8 | 12% | 33% |
| Ballybane | 15,082 | 12.0 km | 34.1 | 7.1% | 41% |
| Eyre Square | 6,801 | 12.8 km | 35.1 | 15% | 17% |
| Craughwell | 1,034 | 12.8 km | 35.6 | 7.3% | 54% |
| Mervue | 4,126 | 12.9 km | 37.4 | 16% | 29% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Galway’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Galway’s towns of 2,500 or more and over the Irish towns of 2,500 or more (city totals left out). Percentiles are within Ireland only.
- The earlier population is an estimate. Towns had no official 2016 count on today’s boundaries, so the 2016 figure is CSO’s electoral-division count shared out by where people lived in 2022: read a small town in a large rural division loosely.
- What these tables don’t give. The small-area tables give no year of arrival and no hours of care, and a town’s electoral divisions run past its edge, so the page doesn’t split a town into named areas (a city lists its neighbourhoods).
- The census’s own words. Born abroad, citizenship, ethnic or cultural background and religion are CSO’s questions and categories; the page compares them with other towns and never labels a town by them.
Questions about Ballinderreen’s residents
What is the population of Ballinderreen?
Ballinderreen had 383 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 14% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Ballinderreen?
The median age is 37.7. 36% are under 18 and 7.8% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Ballinderreen?
51% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (182 people), and 2% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Ballinderreen?
89% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 16% were born abroad and 7.4% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Ballinderreen?
83% are Catholic, 14% have no religion and 3% another religion; 2.9% didn’t say.
Is Ballinderreen good for families?
65% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 36% of residents are under 18. Schools near Ballinderreen are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Ballinderreen?
Median gross household income in Ballinderreen was €73,060 in 2022, against €59,640 across Co. Galway and €60,120 for Ireland.
Sources: CSO, Census of Population 2022, Small Area Population Statistics · CSO PxStat FP009 (2016 by electoral division) · CSO GPIIA, household income 2022. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).